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Post by G on Jul 14, 2014 15:33:06 GMT -5
Although its probably at an all time low for activity, today marks 7 years since Comic Crack started. This has probably been my least participation since I started this site because I've been busy trying to get my life back in order. I still wish for better days around here. I still have plans of buying comics again and waxing poetics with those who share the same passion. But I doubt ill ever be a buyer of new comics again because I have given up hope in the industry and just don't want to waste my time on that side of it anymore, I still have desires to be collector again. I'm just not sure I'm ever going to ger around to it. For these and many other reasons my board suffers. I leave it open because I still want it to exist. I'm just unsure what to do here anymore. I guess I'm waiting for devine intervention to take place and make things better here. I guess part of me has lost interest in the fight to pursue members anymore. The board just exists at this point. I hope things have changed by time we get to year number 8. If you actually took the time to read this. I'm glad you're here. Thanks foe the support.
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Post by defiant1 on Jul 14, 2014 20:36:13 GMT -5
Although its probably at an all time low for activity, today marks 7 years since Comic Crack started. This has probably been my least participation since I started this site because I've been busy trying to get my life back in order. I still wish for better days around here. I still have plans of buying comics again and waxing poetics with those who share the same passion. But I doubt ill ever be a buyer of new comics again because I have given up hope in the industry and just don't want to waste my time on that side of it anymore, I still have desires to be collector again. I'm just not sure I'm ever going to ger around to it. For these and many other reasons my board suffers. I leave it open because I still want it to exist. I'm just unsure what to do here anymore. I guess I'm waiting for devine intervention to take place and make things better here. I guess part of me has lost interest in the fight to pursue members anymore. The board just exists at this point. I hope things have changed by time we get to year number 8. If you actually took the time to read this. I'm glad you're here. Thanks foe the support. Ironically, I was going to post "something" just now and I saw you had posted this. Obviously, getting your life in order and being a daddy is more important than spending your money on comics. I got annoyed on Whet's board recently. I made a comment that modern comics are crap and I got the same broken record response from someone that I've been hearing for the last decade. The guy says "Oh, really! Have you checked out stuff that isn't from Marvel or DC?" I tossed up the nicest words I could muster because it's Whet's board and he's been a good host. Idiotic comments like that are an invitation for me to cuss someone out. I haven't been back. I have no idea when or if I'll go back because I can't stand conversing with people who are actually that stupid. I've sorted and/or scanned 1200 non-DC & non-Marvel comics in my collection over the past couple of years. I'm sorting through another long box now which is mostly indy comics. I could flood your board with my comics scans like I'm doing on my board now, but I really think you'd prefer fans that come here for your content, not just to see a mirror of my own board's content. The only comics I've been buying are IDW Treasury comics. I've been doing it to keep my Treasury collection as much up to date as I can. I'm not really excited about what they are publishing. I may stop buying those. I'm dealing with health issues and have tests being done on Friday. No one is trained to back me up when I'm out. Happy 7 year anniversary! df1 |
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Post by UDog™ on Jul 16, 2014 21:19:13 GMT -5
Happy 7 years G and Comic Crack! defiant1 sorry to hear of you dealing with health issues, i do hope everything will go well for/with you. |
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Post by G on Jul 18, 2014 16:08:19 GMT -5
Although its probably at an all time low for activity, today marks 7 years since Comic Crack started. This has probably been my least participation since I started this site because I've been busy trying to get my life back in order. I still wish for better days around here. I still have plans of buying comics again and waxing poetics with those who share the same passion. But I doubt ill ever be a buyer of new comics again because I have given up hope in the industry and just don't want to waste my time on that side of it anymore, I still have desires to be collector again. I'm just not sure I'm ever going to ger around to it. For these and many other reasons my board suffers. I leave it open because I still want it to exist. I'm just unsure what to do here anymore. I guess I'm waiting for devine intervention to take place and make things better here. I guess part of me has lost interest in the fight to pursue members anymore. The board just exists at this point. I hope things have changed by time we get to year number 8. If you actually took the time to read this. I'm glad you're here. Thanks foe the support. Ironically, I was going to post "something" just now and I saw you had posted this. Obviously, getting your life in order and being a daddy is more important than spending your money on comics. I got annoyed on Whet's board recently. I made a comment that modern comics are crap and I got the same broken record response from someone that I've been hearing for the last decade. The guy says "Oh, really! Have you checked out stuff that isn't from Marvel or DC?" I tossed up the nicest words I could muster because it's Whet's board and he's been a good host. Idiotic comments like that are an invitation for me to cuss someone out. I haven't been back. I have no idea when or if I'll go back because I can't stand conversing with people who are actually that stupid. I've sorted and/or scanned 1200 non-DC & non-Marvel comics in my collection over the past couple of years. I'm sorting through another long box now which is mostly indy comics. I could flood your board with my comics scans like I'm doing on my board now, but I really think you'd prefer fans that come here for your content, not just to see a mirror of my own board's content. The only comics I've been buying are IDW Treasury comics. I've been doing it to keep my Treasury collection as much up to date as I can. I'm not really excited about what they are publishing. I may stop buying those. I'm dealing with health issues and have tests being done on Friday. No one is trained to back me up when I'm out. Happy 7 year anniversary! df1 I left whet's board when he posted some recent ebay sales and one of them some paid like $2500 for like a 2 month old modern book in 9.8 and I posted whoever that person was, was probably an idiot to pay that much money for a 2 month old comic in 9.8. Of course whet didn't agree and publically chastised me about my comments. I always felt like the kind of buying, collecting and selling I did was not anything he cared about so when he blasted my comments for expressing my feelings over the matter, it just felt like it was time for me to go. I've always liked whet and I think he's a good dude with a very nice message board, but after losing my members for stating what I didn't like over here, I felt I learned my lessons on it. If you're telling members not to speak their minds, it felt like he wouldn't be concerned if I left. So I left and he ain't been concerned about it. So whatever.... Its not that I don't want my site to mirror yours. Content is content to me. But I'd like to feel like your posts are made organically and not because you feel an obligation to post the same things over here to try and help me. I just want whatever you post to be what you thought you wanted to post no matter what it is. I just want whatever you posted to be because you wanted to. I'm trying to pay a bit more attention to things. I'm just out of the loop because I don t care about what is going on in modern comics. I'm having a hard time discovering what I want to post about. It doesn't help that I still don't have internet service at my house. If I had that, I'd probably be posting a bit more. All my posts from the past year have been from my phone and that makes the experience suck for me. Its too much work for me to do anything around here strictly from a phone. Basically I'm hoping as my situation improves, so hopefully wlll my posting output. I still care about this place. And yes Underdog, thanks for your 7 years or helping out around here. Both of you are greatly appreciated. |
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Post by UDog™ on Jul 18, 2014 20:48:41 GMT -5
Your welcome my friend. I'll always be around if you need any help.  |
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Post by defiant1 on Jul 20, 2014 21:03:06 GMT -5
I would rather post organically also. A lot of things going on in my life, so I'm visiting less and less sites online.
I fell like I'm talking a completely different language when I talk to collectors of modern comics. Many collectors I see online have either lived very sheltered lives or they are idiots. They defend the shallowness of comics and I get sick of it. If you talk to retailers, many have no appreciation of comics other than their ability to sell them and profit. They'll defend any piece of crap that helps pay the rent as they wave goodbye to the comics and smile.
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